بهار جوانیم رفت
Bahare Jawaneyam Raft
“The Spring of My Youth Has Gone”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
The spring of my youth has gone — alas The joy of life has come to its end — alas My happiness, like an eagle, has taken flight And soared toward the heavens — alas
O beautiful bird, come to me, come You are the sun of my life The light in my eyes has grown dim and dark My broken heart waits for you This heart has always been your consoler Though your flight takes you elsewhere Return — bring joy to this grief-stricken heart
All my hopes remain in my heart, undying I know this life that has passed is nothing but a pattern of regret
Transliteration
Bahare jawaneyam raft, afsoos Neshate omor ba payan rasid, afsoos Khosheyam hamcho oqab karda parwaz Soye asomanha raft, afsoos
Ay parendaye zeba, soye man beya, beya Aaftab zendagiam Roshani chashmanam tar, tar Qalbe shekastam dar entezarat Qalbe shekastam dar entezarat Bowad hamesha ein qalb ghamgosarat Gar chi parwaze tu jay degarest Bargard, nomaa shad ein qalbe ghamginam
Hama arezohayam, manad ba qalbam jawedani Danam ein omore rafta, naqshist az poshaymani
Bahare jawaneyam raft, afsoos Neshate omor ba payan rasid, afsoos Khosheyam hamcho oqab karda parwaz Soye asomanha raft, afsoos
Bahare jawaneyam raft, afsoos Neshate omor ba payan rasid, afsoos Khosheyam hamcho oqab karda parwaz Soye asomanha raft, afsoos
متن اصلی
بهار جوانيم رفت، افسوس نشاط عمر به پايان رسيد، افسوس خوشی ام هم چو عقاب کرده پرواز سوی آسمانها رفت، افسوس
ای پرنده زيبا، سوی من بيا، بيا آفتاب زندگيم! روشنی چشمانم تار، تار قلب شکسته ام در انتظارت قلب شکسته ام در انتظارت بود هميشه اين قلب غمگسارت گر چه پرواز تو جای دگريست برگرد، نما شاد اين قلب غمگينم
همه آرزوهایم، ماند به قلبم جاودانی دانم اين عمر رفته، نقشيست از پشيمانی
بهار جوانيم رفت، افسوس نشاط عمر به پايان رسيد، افسوس خوشی ام هم چو عقاب کرده پرواز سوی آسمانها رفت، افسوس
بهار جوانيم رفت، افسوس نشاط عمر به پايان رسيد، افسوس خوشی ام هم چو عقاب کرده پرواز سوی آسمانها رفت، افسوس
An elegy for lost youth — the spring of one's young years gone, happiness taken flight like an eagle. The classical Persian theme of time's passage and the fleeting nature of life's beauty.
About This Recording
The spring of youth as a season that ends is one of Persian poetry's oldest preoccupations. From Omar Khayyam's quatrains to the Sufi poets, the brevity of youth is not simply a sentimental subject but an argument: that one must live fully because the window is short.
The eagle image — 'my happiness, like an eagle, has taken flight and soared toward the heavens' — carries the speed and altitude of something beyond retrieval. Eagles in Persian poetic imagery are associated with royalty, power, and unreachable heights. Happiness departing upward, not downward, is a specific grief.
Zahir recorded this at a time in his career when the theme was not yet autobiographical — youth was still present. Listeners who came to it after his death at thirty-three found in the lyric an uncanny accuracy, a man singing about loss that was still ahead of him.
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